Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 83, Number 10, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 17 September 1959 — Page 1

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A picture of the 1913 term at Locke school, showing pupils of the “little” room. In the b ick row, left to right, are Teacher Vida Dossier, now Mrs. John May of Alabama; Mary Burkey, who writes the column “50 Years in Locke”; Frank Douma, Goshen; Floyd Ilerr, Henry Shaum. Wakarusa; Melvin and Glenwood Kronk, Elkhart; Laurel Haines, deceased; Flossie Clouse (Bleile), big room teacher, deceased. Second row from top: Lilly Pfeiffer Erven, Elkhart; Lulu Shaum Witmer, Columbiana, 1.; Dora Kronk Ferm. Cassopolis, Mich.: Mary Parcell Moran, Elkhart; Herbert “Jerry” Myers, Wakar ;a; Ralph Ganger, Goshen; Paul Smeltaer, 809 32nd st„ South. Bend; Louis Pippenger, Nappanee; Pat ine Ro-brough, Detroit; Lula Clouse. (Mrs. Jay Sheets) Nappanee; Florence Clouse (Mrs. Clifford Culp, Slkhar.t. Third row: Fern Myers Kauffman. Quakertown, Pa. deceased; Mary Burkholder Mast, kappan e; Wil.ia Dennison Tatum, South Bend, deceased; Mildred Rosbrough Meta. South Bend: Ethel Ipr Pearl Ganger (Mrs. Wilbur Lehman) Nappanee; Mabel Ganger (Mrs. John Mitschelen) Goshen; Joe !iaum, Goshen; Oscar Dennison, Wisconsin; Emanuel Burkholder, Etna Green; Floyd Kronk. Front rov Edna Bender, Marjorie Shrock Hamilton, Warsaw; Marion Shrock tMrs. Floyd Weldy) Nappanee; Jancy Stewart; Joe Parcell. Wakarusa: Frank Dennison, Henry Ipe, Cecil “Dicky” Stull, North Dakot;

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Rev. Walter 11. Black is the new pastor at Pilgrim Holiness church succeeding Rev. C. M. Jones, who has accepted a church at Windfall.

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Mr. and Mrs. Orley Miller, 655 N. Clark, announce the engagement of their daughter Carolyn, to Max E. Martin, son of the Willard Martins. R 1, Bremen. Carolyn is a 1959 graduate of Nappanee high school and employed at Blue Bell Inc. Max is employed as a draftsman at Mutschler Bros. No date has been set for the wedding.

Steve Lloyd Stahly in Head-on Crash Three persons were injured in a head-on crash on Rt 6, west of Nappanee, Saturday about 10 p. m. when Steve Dawson, 16, was misled by a dip in the road and struck the car of Lloyd Stahly, 701 N. Main, while passing another car. Steve, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Dawson, 651. E. Centennial, was at first reported in serious condition in Bremen hospital with a possible concussion, but was released from the hospital Tuesday. His back was scraped on the pavement when he was thrown from the car and he has other injuries. Georgia Anglin of Bremen, who was riding with him, was also thrown from the car and has three cracked ribs and cuts and bruises. Mr. Stahly had his forehead burned by the windshield visor and has a fractured rib. His car is reported beyond repair and the Dawson car had its front end completely smashed. State police ticketed Dawson for passing Without sufficient room and he will appear in Bremen JP court later this month.

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Plans arc building up to provide Nappanee area women with tjvo stimulating mornings of food ideas and recipes next Thursday and Friday, Sept 24 and 25 when Susan Lowe, famed cooking expert will conduct a cooking school in the Community Bldg. Merchants are cooperating to provide displays and exhibits along with the cooking classes which will meet both mornings from 9 to 11:30. Other merchants are having events in their own stored in connection with the cooking school. Admission is free and a large crowd of women from this area is expected to attend. All food prepared will toe given as prizes. Telling of her experiences in conducting cooking schools across the country, Susan Lowe recalls, “At one of my schools in a high school auditorium, girls from the home economics class helped me. I gave each of them a job to do similiar to those we all have in our own kitchens. One girl, Rosemary. was given a tray with instructions for vegetables to be cleaned. I was busy, but happened to look around and saw that Rosemary was just standing looking into the sink blankly. “I asked her what the trouble was, and she told me she didn't know how to use a paring knife, when I asked her if she didn't help her mother at home, she started to cry and said she didn’t have a home. “After more tears she told me she lived in an orphanage and, contrary to most homes of that type, they did not let the girls do (Continued on page 2)

GRASS FIRE Nappanee Volunteer fire department was called out Saturday at 2:04 for a grass fire along the railroad, IV4 mi. W. of town.

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Map of proposed zoning for building, factory rid business use of land in Nappanee. Official publication of the map and ordinance has not yet been made although passed by city council. Dave Widmoyer Is president of U i city planning group. K

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The late Jos< ?h Fish: r, teacher for many years ac Locke school, a man r member and by his pupils as a “s ict” tea her but one who taugl ; them well and put his heart nto his work. A warm-hearted nan wh kept a wreath on an e ipty des all year , for a little and id girl and who ! loved to play ractieal jokes on ! the “big boys” his stoi * is verywell told this week n Mary Eurkey’s column, “50 fears in Locke.”

Mystery To lie Next May of Civf s Theatre Next produc on of Nappanee Civic Theatre v 11 be a pine-ting-i ling giystery, ”i aspect” 'Titten by Edward Percy ind Reginald DenJ ham. which wilt be pro ented the week before Thanksgivi g. The board of director s has appointed Dr. Jerry Lentz as director, and Mrs. Warren Shively assistant director. Parts will be cast Se.:t, 22 and | 23. Dr. Lentz t ges an; jne inter- | esting in actin to meet at West i Side Pavilion at 7:3( p.m. on ! either of those wo nights.

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ZONE BUDGET SLASH HITS CITY PLANNING

The hope of having the county support the zoning staff for Elkhart, Goshen and Nappanee jointly with the county, was dashed when county tax adjustment board gave the budget another cut to $7,900 from an original $441150. It decreases the county tax rate by a little over 1 cent. The daily newspapers reported the move by the tax board as a bombshell, declaring that the action by the board requiring over four hours, was radically different than previous meetings, described as, "routine sessions of about 30 minutes.” M. S. Pletcher, Nappanee. joined the chairman, Phillip E. Byron, Elkhart, in voting for the slash. Mayor Danielson of Elkhart also voted to slash. The effect of this on Nappanee zoning and plan operations has not been announced. Nappanee council has passed a zoning ordinance but has not yet published it. Failure of using the county budget for joint city and county zoning tends to double the taxation by both city and county making levies for planning Dave Widmoyer. Nappanee planning chief, .states. Others see the act of the eoun(Continued on page 2)

Granddaughter of Ray Metzlers Has Heart Surgery

Peggy Rae Metzler, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Metzler, Elkhart, and granddaughter of the Ray Metzlers of Nappanee, was scheduled to have a serious heart operation today at Bobs Robert hospital on Univ. of Chicago campus to close a hole in the lining around her heart. An appeal has gone out for at least 15 blood donors who are needed at the hospital to give blood as it is immediately needed. Those from Nappanee who have volunteered to go to Chicago to have their blood typed are Dan Metzler, Lowell MfcCuen. Mrs. Clell Hartman, Thelma Bigler. Joan Clem, and Mrs. George Cleveland.

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Mrs. Helen Leedy, manager of Christian Light Bookstore, is shown attending the 10th annual convention of Christian Booksellers Association in Grand, Rapids, Mich. More than 1300 booksellers and publishers from nearly every state and Canadian province and several foreign countries attended this convention, the largest ever held by the association.

Mrs. Wendell Sheets, the former Anita Kay Hoover, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hoover, 458 W. Cntennial, shown at her marriage Aug. 29 in First Brethren church to the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sheets, R 2. The new couple will make their home on the Sheets farm when the groom’s parents move into Nappanee. They have returned from a wedding trip to Mackinac Island.

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51 r. and Mrs. Forrest Hawley R 1, Bourbon, announce the engagement of their daughter, Dorothy Jean, to Larry Haney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Haney R 2, Milford. Dorothy is a graduate of Bourbon high school, and her fiance graduated from Milford high school. Both are seniors this fall at North Central College, Naperville. 111. No date has been set for the wedding. UNDER DOCTORS CARE Mrs. U. J. Shively was admitted to Elkhart hospital Sunday for surgery later in the week. Mrs. Tom Graverson was treated in a doctors office Saturday for lacerations of the left index finger. SOUTH PTA MEETING First meeting of South school PTA will be Monday, Sept 21 at 7:30 p.m., a get-acquainted meeting in the kindergarten room. The best drivers drive as if everyone else had the right of way

Register to Vote This Frl. and Sat. at City Hall Voter registration board will be at City Hall this Friday and Saturday from 12 to 8 p.m. Voting laws require that a person must be a resident of his pre-. cinct 30 days, of his township 60 days, and of his state for six months prior to the November 3 election. Those who have moved or changed addresses even in the same precinct will need to be transferred. Stella Miller, for the Republicans and Ethel Walters, for the Democrats, will be the registrars. They will also be here Sept 2526, Oct 2-3 and Monday, Oct 5, which is the final chance to register to vote this November. Those who will be 21 years of age by Nov 3 are eligible to vote. Election precincts are: Union 1, all of the city lying east of Main and North of the east and west alley between Market and Walnut. Union 2, all of the west half of Union Twp outside the city limits. Union 3, all of the east half of Union Twp. Union- 4, all of the city lying east of Main and south of the east and west alley between Walnut and Market. Locke 1, all of Locke Twp outside of the city limits. Locke 2. all of Locke Twp lying west of Main and north of the east-west alley between Walnut and Market. Locke 3, all of the city lying west of Main- and south ocf the east-west alley between Walnut and Market.

Mrs A. Mutschler Lifelong Resident Dies at 84 Years One of Nappanee’s best known and most respected residents, Mrs. Albert Mutschler, 84. passed away in her home at 252 E. Walnut, Saturday at 1 p.m. one hour after a heart attack. Widow of one of the founders of Mutschler Bros. Cos. and mother of its ; two present owners, Mrs. Mutschler was a lifetime resident and known to all. Her tall, queenly appearance -and her dignified yet friendly bearing marked her as a true lady of the old school. Born Margaret Elizabeth Mutsehler, daughter of John W. Ulery and Mary Jane Whitehead Ulery, in Nappanee rural area. Nov 28. 1874, the deceased was married in 1897 to Albert 'Mutschler, who passed away May 20, 1915. Surviving children are Mary Mutschler Chapman, Douglaston, Long Island, N.Y., and LaMar and Carlyle A. Mutschler, Nappanee, six grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. Mrs. Mutschler was a member of the Methodist church, Eastern Star and a charter member of Current Club. Funeral services were at the Methodist church Tuesday in charge of Rev. Orrin Manifold, and burial was at Union Center. Legion Changes Meeting Date To Thursdays American Legion has changed their meeting day from Tuesday to

Thursday, because of the bowling schedule. This Thursday night, Bob Dean .commander, asks all Legion members to meet at

Community building to clean the building. Sarita Sehrock is teaching fourth grade at Bellfontaine, O.

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This dramatic fire picture, taken by Richard Rice, a printer at Advance-News, shows the barn on the Russell Hartman farm, full of hay, in full blaze with the light of the flames reflected in the water on the ground in front, as Nappanee firemen struggled all night to save the other buildings. Dale George lives on the farm.

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Ginger Pippenger, 10, on the new bicycle she won in Hamsher DX station’s, Boron Days celebration. With her is Bob Hamsher, who made the presentation of the bike. Ginger is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pippenger, 651 S. Locke, and this is the first thing she has ever won, in fact it’s the first thing her whole family has ever won. says Ginger.

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Gluck, Elkhart, announce the engagement of their daughter, Yselta, to William O. Kiefer jr. son of the senior William Keifers, 151 W. Reed, Nappanee. The bride-to-be graduated from Elkhart high school in 1958 and her fiance is a 1957 graduate of Nappanee high school, employed by Mutschler Bros. A May wedding is planned.

JVft\ and Mrs. Iraroid Phillips jr. Streator, 111. were Saturday guests of the Harold Phillips sr. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hollar and the Paul Ulines are on a vacation trip to New England.

UNCLE EB from EB-NEi'ER says:

DEAR MISTER EDITOR: When the weather is right fer it, I spend a heap of my time just setting on the front porch and rocking. A feller can do some mighty sound thinking while he’s setting and rocking. I always rock with the grain on account of rocking agin the grain makes the planks squeak and the noise reminds my old lady of a few chores I ain’t finished. I reckon most of you folks in town ain’t saw a rocking chair in 10 year, and if you had one, chances is you ain’t got no front porch to rock it on. When you town folks throwed your rocking chairs away and started building houses without no front porches is when you started down hill. There ain’t nothing in this world that gives a feller the feeling that he’s at peace with hisself and the world like setting and rocking fer a spell. If Khrushchev and them Russian bandits would git a front porch and some rocking chairs, the Mvorld wouldn’t need no summit meeting. Last night my good neighbor Zeke Grubb come by and me and him rocked and talked fer a couple {lours. Zeke is a real good rocker and talker. He said he had writ his Congerssman fer some data last Spring and his letter was referred to the Agriculture Department and from there to sev-

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NAPPANEE FIREMEN BATTLE THE BURNING HAY FOR 8 HOURS

Two boys, Melvin and Daniel Schmucker, saw the bolt of lightning that struck the Dale George barn on the Russel Hartman farm, southwest of Nappanee last Wednesday night at 10:50. Ligh ning hit . the wires and flames flew around the barn top, they said. Amos Chupp, across the road from the barn, heard the crash which sounded like a loud thud and .looking out saw a ball of fire in the barn. Some lightning strikes as a ball of fire and cases have been reported cf a ball of fire traveling around a room and disappearing thru the TV set. Mr. George was awakened by the bolt and looked out of the house but all appeared black from that side. Two minutes later, he looked again and saw the barn all afire under the roof. Nappanee firemen were called and stayed on the scene all night but they were helpless to save the barn, vhich was a mass of flames when hey arrived. They saved the shed, all the east silo doors and all bi 6 seven of the doors at the south silo. The porchway of the milk house, six feet west of the barn was mostly burned and the wooden door leading into the concrete block milk hbuse was charred with flames. The hay went on burning all night and flames could be seen from a distance still burning Thursday morning. About 60 tons of chopped hay and 20 tons of straw, plus miscellaneous small machinery was destroyed. A bull and three calves were led out of the barn before flame reached them and a tractor and irge machinery w r ere also saved Mr. George believes that the ensilage is saved, but there is a possibility of nails dropped into it from burned doors of the south silo. The seven doors have been replaced. Several people were out looking at the fire scene Sunday. John Schwartz pointed out as strange that, altho a ladder was burned at the east silo, twine hanging from the tunnel door and a piece hung on the side of the fire was not b rned at all. Fu! damages had not been estimat and by Hartman Monday. Insurar. :e will partially cover the loss. lartman. owner of the farm, said Monday he had lost his half share of the hay crop, about SBOO. Etna Green firemen assisted at the blaze, hauling water.

BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Devon Eby, R 3, Son, Sept 11. Mr. and Mrs. Harley. Garl, daughter, Ann Elaine, Sept. 14 at Elkha t hospital.

eral other Departments. Right now, says Zeke, he’s hearing from the State Department. He figgers he’ll git the data in time fer the 1960 elections, along with a letter from his Congressman on how hard he’s been working on the project. Zeke is always good fer a fancy yarn or two. He was telling last night about the Sunday morning this fe ler went to church and nobody towed up but the preacher and hi a. The preacher come down to the pew and asked this feller, "Broth ;r, if you took a load of hay to the pasture; and didn’t but one cow sh w up. would you feed her?” The fe] ,er allowed as how he would feed hi;r. The preacher walked back up in the pulpit sung a few songs, said a long prayer, preached two hours and 10 minutes, sung a f#w more songs and said a final prayer. He come down ,out of the pulpit, shook hands with the feller, and they'walked down the isle together. Whe they got to the door, the feller sopped and told the preacher, "E werend, I been thinking about t at load of hay and the Cow. I’d hai ; fed her alright, but I’ll be dad burned if I would’ve give her th< whole load.” Yours truly; Uncle Eb